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The Open Group

Directory Access Control Summit

Tuesday 2-5.30pm    All delegates welcome

Lack of a common access control framework is holding up progress on directory replication. Replication must encompass access control information if the security of the replicated information is to be preserved. But the core LDAP RFCs do not specify access control, and different directory servers have different access control regimes. Progress on developing a standard access control framework in the IETF appears to have stalled; there is a draft but it now looks unlikely to become an RFC.

The Directory Access Control Summit will review the situation in the IETF, consider the views of the X.500 community and other interested parties, and look at the options for moving forward, in order to make recommendations to standards bodies and the industry on how to progress.

The Directory Access Control Summit is a meeting of the Global Directory Forum, a "virtual organization" composed of the Directory Interoperability Forum and the EMA Forum of The Open Group, with the European Forum for E-Business (EEMA).

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14:00	Introduction to the Access Control Summit, and explanation of the Global Directory Forum Winston Bumpus, Novell, Chair of the DIF.
14:10	Directory Access Control Framework from a Customers' Standpoint Russ Chung, FTT Consulting
14:30	Customer Needs for a Directory Access Control Framework Michele Rubenstein, Solutions4Networks.
15:00	Client Environments, Business Needs, and Standards Issues Phil Allen. OpenNetwork Technologies
15:30	Tea
16:00	The X.500 View of the Access Control Framework Problem Chris Harding, The Open Group
16:10	Directory Access Control and the IETF John McGarvey, IBM.
16:35	iPlanet Directory Server and Standardized LDAP Access Control Rob Byrne, Sun
17:00	Discussion. What are the real needs for a standard directory access control framework, and how do we ensure that those needs are met?
17:30	Meeting close.